A gregarious lingulid brachiopod Longtancunella chengjiangensis from the lower Cambrian, South China

Lethaia

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-18

  Zhang, Zhifei ^a   Han, Jian ^a   Liu, Jianni ^a   Shu, Degan ^a,b  

^a NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Brachiopoda; Chengjiang Lagerst tten; Early Cambrian; Lifestyle; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

BRACHIOPOD; CAMBRIAN; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; SHELL;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

BRACHIOPODA; LINGULIDA; LOPHOPHORA;

EID: 33947166871     PISSN: 00241164     EISSN: 15023931     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.2006.00002.x     Document Type: Article

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